Audio help

[HELLRAISER01]

I have a soundmax digital audio, with windows xp installed with 2 ghz, 512 ram, 9800 xt 256, and it’s a sony viao. my problem is when i first start my pc my sound works and my microphone works. But not to long after start my settings get changed by something, my audio and voice settings say Modem #0 line instead of soundmax. And it says everything is working fine but i cant change the volume settings or pretty much anything in control panel/sounds and audio devices. could this be a virus? Or something else? If anyone has any ideas please reply thank you.

 

[goku_ssj_uk]

Hmmm I have the same soundcard, I dont think its a problem with it though...try updating to the latest drivers.


If that doesnt work then it might be wise to adjust sound in Half-Life.

 

[HELLRAISER01]

this really isn’t a problem with halflife, well it is but mostly something is wrong with my soundcard because like i said something is changing the settings to where it wont play wav or let me use mic. Like when i try to use mic it says its being used by another program which is BS because its not. So yeah im pretty much screwed unless i reformat my pc but im not going to do that unless i have to.

 

[goku_ssj_uk]

Well you could try messing around a bit in Sound Properties, trying to see if you cant fix it.

IF no program is running the mic (but it still says it is), then try resetting.

 

[HELLRAISER01]

Ok this is really weird i restarted my pc, then i ran a voice record program and got the mic working and my volume settings were ok. But after awhile i watched as the settings became non-changeable and my mic stoped working so something is changeing the setings. This is so messed up one min its fine then it messes up i cant figure this out.

 

[goku_ssj_uk]

Ok this is really weird i restarted my pc, then i ran a voice record program and got the mic working and my volume settings were ok. But after awhile i watched as the settings became non-changeable and my mic stoped working so something is changeing the setings. This is so messed up one min its fine then it messes up i cant figure this out.

Unplug your mic and put it back in, there also might be a program somewhere that can let you adjust the volume settings and also mic settings.

Try download.com and see if you cant find anything to help you.

 

[HELLRAISER01]

No everything is fine but the settings in control panel (sounds and audio devices) it says on both playback and record settings "default device soundmax". That’s when i first start my pc then like 10 min later it changes to "default device Modem #0 Line" so yeah i dont know whats doing this. I have a program called Voicemask pro and when i try to run my microphone it says "Start Test Error. please stop other recording application. Application: ProcessID: 0", and i have Goldwave which says "Error Cannot start recording. Make sure correct recording device/quality is selected, no other programs are recording, and the sound card supports the file's sampling rate". Of course if have done this and no other program that i know of is using my microphone. So in conclusion something is seriously wrong here i think it may be a virus but i dont know. thank you Goku ssj uk for posting.

 

[Daimao]

try scanning for a virus
otherwise uninstall the drivers and install the latest ones